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You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.

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Blacklist the [installation] tag

We've created two tags to separate questions that are about installing Ubuntu and installing something in Ubuntu: system-installation and software-installation. This is with the purpose of getting rid …
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18 votes
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Activate migration paths to Unix and Linux, should we?

First of all, lets remember the golden rule of the migrations: DO NOT MIGRATE CRAP That said, why don't we open the migration paths from AU and UL? There has been 10 migrations to UL in the last …
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17 votes
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Should we get review audits?

Today (2013-12-11), in 3-4 occasions, regulars in chat rooms expressed their concerns that users do not know how to use the site. Is not surprising considering that our eternal September hasn't ended …
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Enable checks on question titles for weak word selection

Today I was editing a migrated question in SO, which contained the word "Help" just to be greeted with a message: I was all O_O when saw this. When I wrote http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/8720/ …
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Don't include self answered or questions where the OP commented in the review audits

There is a mayor problem with one of our close reasons and the audits. We close stuff based in "no reproducible" basis, when OP can't figure out what was wrong nor how the issue was solved nor there's …
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Can we please ban unrelated programming questions?

Before this post gets downvoted to hell: I think that programing questions about using the system calls/interface are on topic. But isn't on topic how to write a "hello world" in C. This is alread …
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Regarding the influx of 16.04 questions

If you can remove all references to the version and still have an answerable question, that doesn't describe a buggy behavior, just edit them. Remove the tags and version from the question and allow t …
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5 votes
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Don't suggest version specific tag when writing questions

As Gilles has said in his other answer "version tags are massively overused on AU", I think is our fault that such things happens. We allow them be alone we them shouldn't and we do nothing to fix tha …
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Enable the easy review close queue filtering interface

We are almost reaching the 1k items in the close queue (we are second, only behind Stack Overflow), so I think we should make any attempt to make folks review stuff and for that reason I ask to enable …
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5 votes
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Remove the link to the video tutorials from the help pages

Due recent changes to our help page I took a peek what was written there too. I found there was a link to some video tutorials, I checked out that was linked to meta.AU, and was in the disposition of …
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Allow 2k+ users to suggest edits

They can suggest edits... just right click the edit button, "Open Link in Private Window" (FF), voila! There you go.
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Can we make a reminder to mark answers as accepted?

There is already that:
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Downvoting answers (or questions) without a reason?

Copied shamelessly of Anna Lear answer which is also my standing (through previously didn't express it well): If you really care about enforcing integrity in voting, you should also be asking for exp …
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3 votes
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Can we get review auditioning for the review queues? (First post and late answers at least) [duplicate]

I just checked out a user that has access to the First Post review queue, and the amount of "No action Needed" sentences to crappy questions were something to be ashamed. I don't want to think that so …
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Can we reduce the volume of off topic questions?

Can we reduce the volume of off topic questions? We already have the tools to reduce them, the problem is: PEOPLE DON'T USE THESE TOOLS The whole system is built upon the assumption that people …
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